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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian and French (also D’Ugo) : patronymic from the Germanic personal name Ugo or Hugo (see Hugh).
  • French : in the south, a habitational name derived from any of the many minor places named Le Got ‘the Goth’, an echo, Morlet suggests, of the Visigoth occupation of Gaul below the Loire.

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